Xavierson wrote:I figured out from day one, when reading the forums, that a field was not viable. I have just been sowing fields and upping my horse attitude everyday. 2 labour units, 20 stamina on horse attitude. I make about a silver a day. It is working well so far.

fields might not seem viable at first, but they eventually make you a good amount of money. for every 10 farming skill, you get 1 extra bag, and for every town upgrade you get 2. all this, and you dont have to use any of your own stamina if you dont want to.

so lets take wheat for example, with no skill at all and no upgrade, the yield is 14-20 wheat. at the low end, with town buying wheat at 38, means 14 bags (unlucky) = 532 bronze and 20 bags = 760. So, if you paid average amount for each cycle (25 bronze per unit) you lose over 2 silver your first cycle if unlucky, and only gain 10 bronze if you are lucky.

in spero, we have 1 upgrade, and will soon be 2 on wheat. each upgrade adds 2. so, currently, unlucky and unskilled get 16 bags = 608; meaning you lose almost 150 bronze; but a lucky 22 bags will earn you 836 bronze, meaning you earn 86 bronze without doing anything.

now lets say you have a skill of 30, and the town has 2 upgrades. that means if you are unlucky, you will gain 21 bags. if you paid average wage of 25 per unit, you are guaranteed to make money. 21 * 38 = 798 - 750 wages = 48 bronze made, and 1 point in your farming skill earned without spending any stamina. If you have that skill and town upgrades and are lucky, your max yield is 27 wheat. Thats 1026 bronze, for a profit of 276 bronze..

farming can be very profitable, it just requires the investment to make it so. luckily in spero, we have the town able to meet us halfway and upgrade the fields.

once i get my farming skill to 100, with 2 town upgrades, i will harvest 28-35 bags of wheat per cycle. a 35 bag harvest of wheat = 1330. if wages paid are 750, thats a lot of profit to be made.

Look, considering bread was 35 and fish 15 last I looked, why are we even trying to lower bread prices? Maybe we'd be better off focusing on fishing or chicken ranching. Since it looks like we'd have to more than double the efficiency of the bread industry, is it actually going to pay off?

Well thats the issue, if we don't have bread we won't have fish or wood or iron; because that is the only thing you can eat out of town. It's true, someone can very well eat at home, fish and then return the next day to eat at home again, but if you factor in that most people hire followers it usually doesnt happen like that.

We aren't going to upgrade anything for awhile right now, and let the market try to find a steady medium.